Now to finish up Cambodia. It’s amazing what we can accomplish in a day! Three temple sites in one morning, and our relatively early start meant we were done as the heaviest crowds arrived. The afternoon options included more temples but we’d had enough so opted to go to the markets to see and shop.Read more
Upon leaving Angkor Wat we saw the inevitable parade of motor scooters and tuk-tuks (motorized tricycle taxis). The tuk-tuks line up along the side of the road waiting for customers. Our next temple was Ta Prom, a Buddhist temple that has been covered by the jungle and restored beginning in 1975. As before we startedRead more
En route to Australia, we learned more about this continent during an inflight lecture. Because of the continent’s isolation, it is home to an enormous number of unique plant and animal species. The indigenous peoples were also isolated, unlike what we have seen in Oceania; there was very little ocean immigration. Lee Berger commented thatRead more
Now back to our regularly scheduled travel posts! The next two will be fairly brief in comparison. Aren’t you pleased?! The afternoon of January 27 we left Easter Island for the 9 hour flight to Samoa, crossing the International Date line along the way. As we noted earlier, the flights don’t seem as long asRead more
We are just over halfway through this trip, even though my posts are not caught up yet. We just left Myanmar (Burma) after three fabulous days and are en route to Agra, India and the Taj Mahal. We’ve had almost no WiFi while there, so I haven’t been able to post Easter Island, Samoa, andRead more